What drove people to go live in cold shitholes (apart from those sweet sweet pelts)? Even civilised european descendants choose to live in new england instead of florida? wtf? Just travel down slightly and you're not freezing to death!
Was society so zero sum or something like that, you had to constantly go west or else you'd be some bottom of the rung cuck?
Who the fuck would want to live in Florida? Place is a muggy flat shithole with hurricanes.
Tropical places were even worse places to live because of the swamps and dangerous animals.
Malaria and having comfy winter holidays. Civilized people prefer temperate climates, tropic and arctic is for savages.
I'd rather be cold all the time than hot as fuck living with literal shitskins
>LAFE I AN GAT NO LAFE
What did me mean by this?
Tropical climes have tropical diseases. Also the wood was sometimes unsuitable for construction and fuel with the technology of the time.
>MUH PELTS
This is the only correct answer. Basically there are pros and cons to both types of climates, especially considering the case of the Europeans from England at the time. They were too pale to live in the south so easily. They would burn easily and get a form of malaria.
old people.
>Even civilised european descendants choose to live in new england instead of florida
lets procon this a bit
>new england
+ good climate for growing food
+ fur bearing animals
+ natives have already been sufficiently depopulated by disease that they pose no substantial threat
+ relatively close to England
- cold winters might lead to freezing or starvation if colonists are ill prepared
+/- less disease in the winter
florida
+ warm year round
+ depending on the region there may be a very limited native presence
- its a giant fucking swamp where even the natives don't want to live
- dysentery
- malaria
- yellow fever
- all the other deadly tropical diseases
- Spain considers Florida their clay and may show up to murder everyone (which they did to French colonists at fort caroline in 1565)
- european staple crops won't grow in a tropical climate, hope you know how to grow manioc
- no readily apparent trade goods like tobacco or furs
- hurricanes
+/- fountain of youth may or may not be out there somewhere
it's worth noting that the seminole wars were by far the deadliest indian wars for the US army simply because of how many soldiers died of disease
Well when your people migrated from the Pontic steppes into Scandinavia during the fucking ice age, everything after that was easy mode.
You forgot the big plus for the tropics that is cash crops and slaves
another dumb nigger who doesn't know how crop rotation works spoted
>Outta the way fuckin southerner
>pelts
>TRAPPER COMING THROUGH
>lol who els is gonna skin ur pelts
>lik u can even hunt
>gud land 4 pelts
>BET U DIDN EVN KNO THAT
>when im don im make ur hat 2
>I KNO HOW COLD UR SOUTHRN HANDS GET LMAO
>fuckin omg
>when im don im skin th fuk outta those pelts
>cant even make clothes w/o pelts
>SOUTHERNER SWERVE
dem big ol' meaty squirrels are only found in northern mots
Fur
>What drove people to go live in cold shitholes
Gold Rush
Nowadays, oil
>new england
>cold
cities in those days were already shitholes and the lure of riches is the strongest of all
No niggers
Never been to Maine?
Florida was a Spanish colony you fucking mope.
what cash crops will grow in the everglades?
>Maine
>Cold
And degenerates...